Serbian Jazz Bre! Project

﻿﻿﻿Serbian Jazz Bre! Band was created in mid 2012, with the
idea of merging music and visual art, and promoting Balkan jazz in new and
fresh way. The music part of the project brought together prominent jazz musicians, forming an artistic expression
which uses both the language of modern jazz and musical heritage of Balkan.
Integral part of performance is a video show, in which the author and the
initiator of the project, photographer Ivan Grlic has the role of VJ.
After a series of successful performances at many festivals
and clubs, the band released it’s first CD ‘’Serbian Jazz Bre! Project’’
in June 2013. Made mostly of original compositions, as well as compositions of
celebrated Serbian jazz artists and Balkan folk songs, arranged as a
specific musical expression, but also with the impacts of East and West,
classical music and wealthy Balkan folklore. In December 2013, Serbian Jazz
Bre! presented a new project: ‘’A Tribute To Lala’’, a homage to legendary
drummer and Balkan jazz pioneer from 1970’s Lala Kovačev.
After only a two years of it’s
existence, Serbian Jazz Bre Project quickly drew the attention of the
public and became an important part of jazz scene in Serbia and around, and had
performances on many international festivals (
Belgrade jazz fest
Belgrade, Indjija jazz fest, Jazz Rallye Luxembourg, Jazz a Liege Belgium,
Liszt Ferenc Zeneakademia Budapest, JazzIbar Kraljevo, DunavFest Belgrade,
Novosadski Jazz Festival, Dan Zauvek Festival Raška, Gitarijada Zaječar, Blues
'n' Jazzelsa Hvar Croatia, Festival Fesativala Trebinje Bosna & Herzegovina, HercegFest Herceg Novi Montenegro,...).
From the very beginning, there was the idea
that the band should be open for cooperation with renowned guest musicians, not
only from the world of jazz. The result was a collaboration with: Boki
Milošević, Stjepko Gut, Miša Blam, Aleksandar Sedlar, Marčelo, DJ Raid, Bunford Gabor, Nenad Jelić, Papa Nik,
Rastko Obradović, Aleksandar Antić,
Nevena Jelić, Sofija Knežević, Nada
Pavlović, Katarina Kačunković, group Paganke, Lazaro Del Toro Vega,
Filip Krumes, Reut Regev, Dr. Eugene Chadbourne, Miloš Punišić, Igor
Malešević, Ljuba Dimitrijević,.... )

Freelance professional photographer and video artist born in Belgrade, October 9th, 1977. Education: Faculty of applied art and design, department of applied graphic 1999-2002. Graphic high school, Belgrade 1992-1995. Professional photographer since 1998. He is a member of several artistic associations: ULUPUDS section for photography, Photo association of Serbia since 2001, Association of professional photographers since 2001, Founder of studio and art workroom “Grlic” 2000. Founder and chairman of association “Srpska duša- Serbian Soul, bre.” He is the author of many photo-art series, projects and two monograph books, such as 'Flash For Fantasy' and 'Serbian BRE!'...Since 2000 he had a huge number of solo exhibitions in galleries all around Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia, France, Belgium, Austria...His experience as a professional photographer so far covers work in almost all domains of applied art and art photography: advertising, still life, fashion, dedicated art, portraits, theater, erotic, landscape...He was official photographer of many theater and film festivals (such as BITEF and FEST)...He had a cooperation with many marketing agencies and companies, as well as cooperation on visual identity, album covers and promo photographs for many significant musicians, bands and singers.

Aleksandar Jovanovic Šljuka - piano, composer

Aleksandar Jovanovic Sljuka

Pianist, keyboardist, composer, born 1978 in Zajecar. Although without formal musical education, as a self-taught musician, he succeeded to acquire knowledge and reputation, and to find his place on the Serbian music scene, both as a sideman and bandleader. He started his professional music carrier in 1998 and since then he has worked as solo pianist, and also with many prominent musicians and bands in Serbia and Montenegro. Since 2004 he performs with Coolares band, one of the most significant ensembles in Serbia. In 2009 he founded the Woodcock Group, band that performs his original compositions, and in 2011 he released his first album ’Water Stories’, published by Sunset Jazz Recordings from New York.He has performed at jazz festivals all over the Serbia, working with many notable musicians from Serbia and abroad, and also has had dozens of performances, appearances and interviews on radio and TV as well as a large number of articles, reviews and interviews in print media and on the internet.

Max Kochetov alt sax

Max Kochetov alt sax

Max Kochetov was born in Kiev ( Ukraine ) on January 9, 1979. His
first music experience was at the age of six,when he started to learn
accordion and clarinete in music school. At the age of nine he started to learn
and play saxophone in children brass and jazz orchestras. From 1992. to 1997.
he was a student of saxophone in Kiev State Music College “ R.M.Gliera”. In
1997. he went to Erfrut ( Germany ),where he’s taking lessons in jazz summer
school from one of the most recognized European saxophone player Zbignew
Namislowski ( Poland ). Ensemble lessons he attended in the class of John
Taylor ( G.Britain ). Parallel, he was playing jazz in many clubs in Germany
and France. He collaborated with many musicions like: Dusko Gojkovic (trumpet),
Jon Faddis (trumpet), Vladimir Molotkov (guitar), Igor Zakus (bass), Dean Brown
(guitar).

Marko Fabry - bass, producer

Marko Fabry bass and producer

Marko Fabry was born in 1985 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, where graduated from Stankovic Music high school (jazz department) in 2004. Since then he collaborates with various Serbian and foreign jazz, pop, rock & rap artists... He was a member of Belgrade Youth Big Band for 3 years, and has studied harmony, counterpoint and arranging. He graduated music production & sound design at the Academy of Arts in Belgrade. Currently, he is working as music producer, film composer, and freelance bassist.

Aleksandar Cvetkovic - drums

Aleksandar Cvetkovic Drama- Drums

Aleksandar Cvetkovic was born at 1979 in Kraljevo, Serbia. In his hometown he finished two years of elementary music school for clarinet and music high school for the theory. From 1998 he has studied and graduated at Faculty of Music Art in Belgrade (Serbia) at theory department. After that from 2002 he has studied at University for Music and Dramatic Art in Graz (Austria) at jazz department for jazz drums. He graduated in 2007 and made his master degree in 2009 in class of Prof. T. Howard Curtis III. He has played at jazz festivals and in jazz clubs in Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia, Slovenia, Austria with some of famous jazz musicians: Dusko Gojkovic, Stjepko Gut, Mimo Mitrovic, Milos Krstic, Misa Blam, Johan Horlen, Jure Pukl, Vasil Hadzimanov... He also was at jazz workshops led by Billy Hart (USA), Ron McClure (USA), John Abercrombie,(USA), Jerry Bergonzi (USA), David Liebman (USA), Jim McNeely (USA), Adam Nussbaum (USA), Jimmy Cobb (USA), Eric van Lier (N), Peter Herbolzheimer (D), Zigi Fiegel (A), Stjepko Gut (SRB)... He has played at jam sessions with famous jazz musicians: Billy Hart, Brad Leali, David Kikoski, Brad Mehldau...

Rastko Obradovic tenor sax

Rastko Obradovic tenor sax

Born 19.01.1995 in Belgrade. Began playing the saxophone at
Stankovic Music School , Department for jazz , after which he continued his
studies at Norgesmusikkhøgskolen in Oslo , Norway and Faculty of music art in
Belgrade .
Played second alto in Big Band of Radio Televison Serbia .
Performed with rhythm section of Markovic-Gut Sextet i.e. Misa Blam , Misa
Krstic and Lazar Tosic ; and also with Vasil Hadzimanov , Branko Trijic , Vladimir Kostadinovic ,
Vanja Kevresan from domestic scene as well as some international players such
as Thomas Duvigneau .

Uros Secerov - percussion

Uros Secerov percussion

Uros Secerov has been at the top of Yugoslav jazz scene for thirty years. At the beginning of his jazz career, he had the privilege to work with the most important jazz creators of today in Serbia, such as Stjepko Gut, Petar Ugrin, Laci Fidri, Rudolf Tomsic, Miša Krstic, Lala Kovacev, Ratko Divjak, Jože Privsek, Bubisa Simic, Stevan Radosavljevic and others. During his career he played with all the big band orchestras in the territory of Yugoslavia, with special collaboration as a guest soloist with Big Band RTV Ljubljana, Novi Sad and Belgrade. He played with Vojislav Brkovic in his Quintet, and later as a guest in the eighties cult band Medaya with Wolfgang Reisinger and Beat Fuhrer. With Ratko Divjak, Lado Jakša and Dani Gančev he played in the group "Sončna pot" which for the first time in our region presented the fusion of ethno sound with jazz elements. After that he played in the orchestra of Lale Kovacev, Balkan Impressions, YU jazz rock election, Jovan Maljokovic sextet, YU jazz summit, Voya Bee - Jimmy Hendrix Pure, Tony Scot Orchestra. Quintet YUPIKA with Ivan Aleksijevic, Bunford Gabor, Istvan Madjaric and Dusan Ivanisevic, for which the jazz critics said that, after appearance of Gut- Markovic Sextet, it was a great support to Yugoslav jazz scene and a true representative of Yugoslav jazz school. Besides concert activity he recorded as a studio musician dozens of albums for various artists, he has played at all relevant European jazz festivals and recorded TV shows and concerts for local and foreign radio and TV stations. Since the formation of the Novi Sad Jazz Festival he has been a member of the Arts Council, and in 2003. and 2004. He was the art director of the Festival.

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